Donnie and Jackie, fraternal twins, are taken into a surreal vigil of love and death when an imposing Polish woman comes to sit at their mother’s death bed. Mrs. Polska, a combination of Mary Poppins, the Virgin Mary and Nurse Ratched, is either a con artist or a dark angel and her takeover of the household forces the daughters to reconcile with the true character of their hardhearted and wickedly comic mother that had been kept secret all their lives.